stew's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 07 Dec 2024 02:56:04 -0800 60 stew's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Aeschylus II: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments (Loeb Classical Library #146)]]> 37042 544 Aeschylus 0674991613 stew 5 4.45 Aeschylus II: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments (Loeb Classical Library #146)
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Essential tragedies with an extraordinary translation that maintains the flavor of the ancient tongue. A masterful work from HWS.
]]> <![CDATA[The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction]]> 12951 nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw� to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,� the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.

Includes “The Turn of the Screw� � Daisy Miller � Washington Square � “The Beast in the Jungle� � “The Jolly Corner”]]> 527 Henry James 0553210599 stew 4 3.80 1937 The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass]]> 244267 The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one.

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Weaving myth, fantasy, and reality, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is, to quote Schulz, "an attempt at eliciting the history of a certain family...by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history.]]> 324 Bruno Schulz 0802710913 stew 3 4.41 2005 The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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]]> <![CDATA[Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida]]> 31849 208 Jürgen Habermas 0226066665 stew 0 3.91 2003 Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
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]]> On the Concept of History 6838527 24 Walter Benjamin 1448670411 stew 0 4.36 1940 On the Concept of History
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]]> <![CDATA[One Way Street And Other Writings]]> 149401 392 Walter Benjamin 185984197X stew 0 4.20 1928 One Way Street And Other Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings]]> 190475 348 Walter Benjamin 080520802X stew 0 4.33 1978 Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[Illuminations: Essays and Reflections]]> 2725
Also included are his penetrating study on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times. Reflections the companion volume to this book, is also available as a Schocken paperback.

Unpacking My Library, 1931
The Task of the Translator, 1913
The Storyteller, 1936
Franz Kafka, 1934
Some Reflections on Kafka, 1938
What Is Epic Theater?, 1939
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, 1939
The Image of Proust, 1929
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
Theses on the Philosophy of History, written 1940, pub. 1950]]> 278 Walter Benjamin 0805202412 stew 0 4.30 1955 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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]]> Negative Dialectics 96714 438 Theodor W. Adorno 0826401325 stew 0 4.13 1966 Negative Dialectics
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]]> The Authoritarian Personality 201414 976 Theodor W. Adorno 0393311120 stew 0 3.78 1950 The Authoritarian Personality
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]]> The Culture Industry 201385 all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.]]> 178 Theodor W. Adorno 0415253802 stew 0 4.05 1944 The Culture Industry
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]]> Aesthetic Theory 85818 Aesthetic Theory is Theodor W. Adorno's magnum opus, the clarifying lens through which the whole of his work is best viewed, providing a framework within which his other major writings cohere.]]> 416 Theodor W. Adorno 0816618003 stew 0 4.14 1970 Aesthetic Theory
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]]> Aesthetics and Politics 162570
Discussing expressionism / Ernst Bloch
Realism in the balance / Georg Lukacs
Against Georg Luckacs / Bertolt Brecht
Conversations with Brecht / Walter Benjamin
Letters to Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno
Reply / Walter Benjamin
Reconciliation under duress ; Commitment / Theodor Adorno

Reflections in conclusion / Fredric Jameson]]> 220 Theodor W. Adorno 184467570X stew 0 4.13 1977 Aesthetics and Politics
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]]> <![CDATA[Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments]]> 85812 Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."

Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself out of the struggle against natural forces, as represented in myths, are connected in a wide arch to the most threatening experiences of the present.

The book consists in five chapters, at first glance unconnected, together with a number of shorter notes. The various analyses concern such phenomena as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The authors perceive a common element in these phenomena, the tendency toward self-destruction of the guiding criteria inherent in enlightenment thought from the beginning. Using historical analyses to elucidate the present, they show, against the background of a prehistory of subjectivity, why the National Socialist terror was not an aberration of modern history but was rooted deeply in the fundamental characteristics of Western civilization.

Adorno and Horkheimer see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to its mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, therefore, are not irreconcilable opposites, but dialectically mediated qualities of both real and intellectual life. "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology." This paradox is the fundamental thesis of the book.

This new translation, based on the text in the complete edition of the works of Max Horkheimer, contains textual variants, commentary upon them, and an editorial discussion of the position of this work in the development of Critical Theory.]]> 304 Max Horkheimer 0804736332 stew 0 4.11 1947 Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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]]> Eclipse of Reason 441559 140 Max Horkheimer 0826477933 stew 0 4.09 1933 Eclipse of Reason
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]]> <![CDATA[Traditional and Critical Theory]]> 21869841 Max Horkheimer stew 0 3.93 1937 Traditional and Critical Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[Critique of Instrumental Reason]]> 732128 163 Max Horkheimer 0826400884 stew 0 4.02 1967 Critique of Instrumental Reason
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]]> Possession 41219 A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.

A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.]]> 555 A.S. Byatt 0679735909 stew 0 currently-reading 3.89 1990 Possession
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]]> Madame Bovary 2175 329 Gustave Flaubert 0192840398 stew 0 currently-reading 3.70 1856 Madame Bovary
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]]> Solenoid 27826456
Based on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.

The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.

Combining fiction with autobiography and history� the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript―Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.]]> 840 Mircea Cărtărescu 9735050595 stew 0 currently-reading 4.20 2015 Solenoid
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]]> Life Is Everywhere 59808489
Manhattan, 2014. Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and her keys are at her parents� apartment, abandoned when she exited mid-dinner after her father–once again–lost control. Erin takes refuge in the library of the university where she is a grad student. Her bag contains two manuscripts she’s written, along with a monograph by a faculty member who’s recently become embroiled in a bizarre scandal. Erin isn’t sure what she’s doing, but a small, mostly unconscious part of her knows: within these documents is a key she’s needed all along.

With unflinching precision, Life Is Everywhere captures emotional events that hover fitfully at the borders of visibility and intelligibility, showing how the past lives on, often secretly and at the expense of the present. Multifarious, mischievous, and deeply humane, Lucy Ives’s latest masterpiece rejoices in what a novel, and a self, carry.]]> 400 Lucy Ives 1644452049 stew 0 currently-reading 3.55 2022 Life Is Everywhere
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vulgate Bible, Vol. IV: The Major Prophetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation]]> 13124277
Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian tradition through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, music, and education, and its contents lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and political history through the Renaissance. At the end of the sixteenth century, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate Bible into English to combat the influence of Protestant vernacular Bibles.

Volume IV presents the writings attributed to the “major� prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel), which feature dire prophecies of God’s impending judgment, punctuated by portentous visions. Yet profound grief is accompanied by the promise of mercy and redemption, a promise perhaps illustrated best by Isaiah’s visions of a new heaven and a new earth. In contrast with the Historical Books, the planned salvation includes the gentiles.]]> 1168 Swift Edgar 0674996690 stew 0 5.00 2012 The Vulgate Bible, Vol. IV: The Major Prophetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vulgate Bible, Vol. III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation]]> 13105215
Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tradition from the early medieval period through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history during that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival theologies.

Volume III presents the Poetical Books of the Bible. It begins with Job’s argument with God, and unlike other Bibles the Vulgate insists on the title character’s faith throughout that crisis. The volume proceeds with the soaring and intimate lyrics of the Psalms and the Canticle of Canticles. Three books of wisdom literature, all once attributed to King Solomon, also are included: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus, an important deuterocanonical book of wisdom literature, concludes the volume. The seven Poetical Books mark the third step in a thematic progression from God’s creation of the universe, through his oversight of grand historical events, and finally into the personal lives of his people.]]> 1232 Swift Edgar 0674996682 stew 0 3.25 2011 The Vulgate Bible, Vol. III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dying Grass (Seven Dreams, #5)]]> 23399010
Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in a style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
]]> 1356 William T. Vollmann 0670015989 stew 0 4.19 2015 The Dying Grass (Seven Dreams, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[On What Matters: Volumes 1 & 2 (2 Volumes)]]> 11106683 1440 Derek Parfit 0199265925 stew 0 4.23 2011 On What Matters: Volumes 1 & 2 (2 Volumes)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Upanishads, Vol. I-IV (4 Volume Set)]]> 1350897 1507 Nikhilananda 0911206140 stew 3 4.43 1987 The Upanishads, Vol. I-IV (4 Volume Set)
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]]> Imperial 5719302
For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.]]> 1308 William T. Vollmann 0670020613 stew 0 3.93 2009 Imperial
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]]> Typee, Omoo, Mardi 3738 The Library of America presents one of America’s greatest writers, Herman Melville (1819�1891). These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of their fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville’s own life in the early 1840s. Like the hero-narrator of Typee and Omoo, Melville shipped out on a whaler, jumped ship in exotic ports, was held captive by native tribes—though here he might have exaggerated his own exploits a bit—and escaped to find passage home in the service of the United States Navy.

Exuberant, highly pictorial, with a clear, swift narrative, Typee (1846) was his most popular work well into the 20th century, outselling all his others, including Moby-Dick. It offers a mostly idyllic account of life among the “cannibals� in which civilized innocence is contrasted with the corrosive effects of 19th-century industrial society.

A sequel to Typee, Omoo (1847) continues this inquiry into Pacific culture and those who intruded upon it, specifically in Tahiti. Melville details the misadventures of the unruly and overworked crew of the Australian trader Julia after they are imprisoned for insubordination; the story will perhaps surprise today’s readers with its humor.

With Mardi (1849), Melville abandons a literary Polynesia for a mythical one. “Mardi� is the Polynesian word for “the world,� and the voyage through imaginary South Sea archipelagoes stops off at Dominora (Britain), Porpheero (Europe), and Vivenza (the United States). Tracing the quest for the elusive and beautiful Yillah, it remains a timely political allegory and a thrilling adventure.

Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature.]]> 1333 Herman Melville 0940450003 stew 0 3.64 Typee, Omoo, Mardi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Word in this World: Two Sermons]]> 1317699 68 Karl Barth 1573834114 stew 0 3.90 2007 The Word in this World: Two Sermons
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]]> <![CDATA[Karl Barth-Rudolf Bultmann Letters 1922-1966]]> 6225587 206 Karl Barth 0567093344 stew 0 3.91 1981 Karl Barth-Rudolf Bultmann Letters 1922-1966
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]]> The Prophetic Imagination 97827 151 Walter Brueggemann 0800632877 stew 0 4.33 1978 The Prophetic Imagination
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (Myth and Poetics)]]> 1209941 240 Leonard Muellner 0801489954 stew 0 3.89 1996 The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (Myth and Poetics)
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]]> Collected Poems 997947
In the Collected Poems, Henry Weinfield brings the oeuvre of this European master to life for an English-speaking audience, essentially for the first time. All the poems that the author chose to retain are here, superbly rendered by Weinfield in a translation that comes remarkably close to Mallarmé's own voice. Weinfield conveys not simply the meaning but the spirit and music of the French originals, which appear en face.

Whether writing in verse or prose, or inventing an altogether new genre—as he did in the amazing "Coup de Dés"—Mallarmé was a poet of both supreme artistry and great difficulty. To illuminate Mallarmé's poetry for twentieth-century readers, Weinfield provides an extensive commentary that is itself an important work of criticism. He sets each poem in the context of the work as a whole and defines the poems' major symbols. Also included are an introduction and a bibliography.

Publication of this collection is a major literary event in the English-speaking world: here at last is the work of a major figure, masterfully translated.]]> 300 Stéphane Mallarmé 0520207114 stew 3 4.17 1899 Collected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep]]> 28295
Jerome and Sylvie, the young, upwardly mobile couple in Things, lust for the good life. "They wanted life's enjoyment, but all around them enjoyment was equated with ownership." Surrounded by Paris's tantalizing exclusive boutiques, they exist in a paralyzing vacuum of frustration, caught between the fantasy of "the film they would have liked to live" and the reality of life's daily mundanities.

In direct contrast with Jerome and Sylvie's cravings, the nameless student in A Man Asleep attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambition. He longs "to want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep." Yearning to exist on neutral ground as "a blessed parenthesis," he discovers that this wish is by its very nature a defeat.

Accessible, sobering, and deeply involving, each novel distills Perec's unerring grasp of the human condition as well as displaying his rare comic talent. His generosity of observation is both detached and compassionate.]]> 221 Georges Perec 1567921574 stew 2 3.99 1965 Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep
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]]> <![CDATA[The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress]]> 2443 560 Mark Twain 0812967054 stew 3 3.83 1869 The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
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]]> Opera Tomus II 1332 This second volumen contains eight dialogues: Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades I,II, Hipparchus, and Amatores.]]> 410 Plato 0198145411 stew 5 4.71 -347 Opera Tomus II
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]]> Spirit in the World 971867 472 Karl Rahner 0826406475 stew 5 favorites 4.16 1968 Spirit in the World
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]]> Essays 9639 1369 George Orwell 0375415033 stew 4 4.51 1968 Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's "Phaedrus" (Ancient Greek Philosophy)]]> 1347 340 David A. White 0791412342 stew 0 3.50 1993 Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's "Phaedrus" (Ancient Greek Philosophy)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle]]> 99285 336 Aristotle 0075546027 stew 0 4.02 -350 The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
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]]> <![CDATA[Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists]]> 2947548 222 Marina McCoy 0521878632 stew 0 4.50 2007 Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
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]]> <![CDATA[Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio oratoria (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)]]> 2010333 248 James J. Murphy 0809313782 stew 0 4.02 1987 Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio oratoria (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)
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]]> On Being a Christian 87144 724 Hans Küng 038519286X stew 3 4.08 1974 On Being a Christian
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]]> <![CDATA[Orationes, Volume III: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, In C. Verrem]]> 2995394 484 Marcus Tullius Cicero 0198146078 stew 0 3.88 -70 Orationes, Volume III: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, In C. Verrem
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]]> <![CDATA[Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now (Hellenic Studies Series)]]> 26264728 296 Gregory Nagy 0674088328 stew 0 4.00 2015 Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now (Hellenic Studies Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 16)]]> 14718044 372 Maren R. Niehoff 9004221344 stew 3 3.00 2012 Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 16)
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]]> <![CDATA[Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 2)]]> 3874020 An international team of experts discusses the processes of canon-formation in societies of the ancient world, addressing such issues as canon and the articulation of identity; the hermeneutical attitude toward canonical texts; textual fixity and openness; oral and written canons; methods of transmission, and more. Among the topics discussed are Mesopotamian canons; Zoroastrianism; the Bible; Homer; literary and philosophical canons in ancient Greece and Rome; the New Testament; the Roman law; Rabbinic Judaism and Kabbalistic literature.
The future of the so-called Western Canon is one of the most hotly debated issues of the day. There is reason to believe that what is perceived today as a unique crisis, can be put into perspective by students of ancient societies, for the simple reason that the ancient world offers us the historical perspective of civilizations as a whole and allows us to study cultural phenomena in the longue durée .]]> 290 Guy G. Stroumsa 9004126651 stew 3 4.33 2003 Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vulgate Bible, Vol. I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation]]> 8170369
Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, the Vulgate Bible was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in the Western European Christian (and, later, specifically Catholic) tradition. Its significance can hardly be overstated. The text influenced literature, visual art, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of much of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history of that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as a variety of Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate into English, among other reasons to combat the influence of rival theologies.

This volume elegantly and affordably presents the text of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, beginning with the creation of the world and the human race, continuing with the Great Flood, God’s covenant with Abraham, Israel’s flight from Egypt and wanderings through the wilderness, the laws revealed to Moses, his mustering of the twelve tribes of Israel, and ending on the eve of Israel’s introduction into the Promised Land.]]> 1200 Swift Edgar 0674055349 stew 5 3.93 2010 The Vulgate Bible, Vol. I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation
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]]> The Art of Memory 245831
Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance.

Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.]]> 400 Frances A. Yates 0226950018 stew 4 4.17 1966 The Art of Memory
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]]> <![CDATA[De inventione/De optimo genere oratorum/Topica]]> 17303463 496 Marcus Tullius Cicero stew 3 3.75 1968 De inventione/De optimo genere oratorum/Topica
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]]> Rhetorica ad Herennium 615103
The Greek art of rhetoric was first naturalized at Rome in the time of the younger Scipio, and Latin treatises on the subject were in circulation from the time of the Gracchi. But the books by Cato, Antonius, and the other Roman writers have not come down to us, and it is from the second decade of the first century B.C. that we have, in the treatise addressed to Gaius Herennius, the oldest Latin Art preserved entire. Like Cicero's incomplete De Inventione, which belongs close to it in time, this work reflects Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. Our author, however, gives us a Greek art in Latin dress, combining a Roman spirit with Greek doctrine. It is a technical manual, systematic and formal in arrangement; its exposition is bald, but in greatest part clear and precise. Indeed the writer's specific aims are to achieve clarity and conciseness, and to complete the exposition of his subject with reasonable speed. He seeks clarity through the use of Roman terms, and of specially selected examples; he seeks conciseness by keeping practical needs always in view, by scrupulously avoiding irrelevant matter, and by presenting methods and principles, not a host of particular illustrations of a given point.]]> 496 Marcus Tullius Cicero 0674994442 stew 4 4.00 -50 Rhetorica ad Herennium
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]]> The Pre-Christian Paul 5629487
He examines the question of the apostle's origins and citizenship, his names, his social background and progression, his education, taking particular note of the differences between what is said in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's own testimony. He discusses the nature of Pharisaic training in Jerusalem before the fall of the city of 70 CE and the connections between Pauline theology and rabbinic literature, while at the same time bringing out the features of Greek education current in Jerusalem at the time. A final section considers how Paul came to be a persecutor of Christianity, taking the account to the eve of his dramatic conversion.

Here, as in his earlier books, Martin Hengel combines clarity of writing with profound scholarship, building up a detailed picture on the basis of evidence which those with more sceptical views must take into serious consideration.]]> 162 Martin Hengel 0334024978 stew 2 3.36 1991 The Pre-Christian Paul
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]]> <![CDATA[Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity]]> 6995487
In undertaking this fresh inquiry into early Christianity and Greco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy Johnson begins with a broad definition of religion as a way of life organized around convictions and experiences concerning ultimate power. In the tradition of William James’s Variety of Religious Experience, he identifies four distinct ways of being religious: religion as participation in benefits, as moral transformation, as transcending the world, and as stabilizing the world. Using these criteria as the basis for his exploration of Christianity and paganism, Johnson finds multiple points of similarity in religious sensibility.

Christianity’s failure to adequately come to grips with its first pagan neighbors, Johnson asserts, inhibits any effort to engage positively with adherents of various world religions. This thoughtful and passionate study should help break down the walls between Christianity and other religious traditions.]]> 461 Luke Timothy Johnson 0300142080 stew 3 3.69 2009 Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
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]]> The Apostle Paul 2281229 Luke Timothy Johnson 1565853679 stew 3 4.00 2001 The Apostle Paul
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel's Scripture]]> 324257
Hays's analysis of intertextual echoes in Paul's letters has touched off exciting debate among Pauline scholars and made more recognizable the contours of Paul's thought. These studies contain some of the early work leading up to Hays's seminal Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul and also show how Hays has responded to critics and further developed his thought in the years since. Among the many subjects covered here are Paul's christological application of Psalms, Paul's revisionary interpretation of the Law, and the influence of the Old Testament on Paul's ethical teachings and ecclesiology.]]> 233 Richard B. Hays 0802812627 stew 3 4.23 2004 The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel's Scripture
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conversion of St. Paul: Narrative and History in Acts]]> 1188189 128 Gerhard Lohfink 0819905720 stew 3 4.00 1976 The Conversion of St. Paul: Narrative and History in Acts
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]]> Absalom, Absalom! 373755 316 William Faulkner 0679732187 stew 3 3.98 1936 Absalom, Absalom!
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]]> <![CDATA[Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.]]> 1330 In "Laches, Charmides, " and "Lysis, " Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. "Protagoras, Ion, " and "Meno" discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In "Gorgias, " Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The "Apology" (not a dialogue), "Crito, Euthyphro, " and the unforgettable "Phaedo" relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous "Symposium" and "Phaedrus, " written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. "Cratylus" discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the "Republic, " concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues "Euthydemus" deals with philosophy; metaphysical "Parmenides" is about general concepts and absolute being; "Theaetetus" reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, "Sophist" deals with not-being; "Politicus" with good and bad statesmanship and governments; "Philebus" with what is good. The "Timaeus" seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished "Critias" treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of "Laws" (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept.
The Loeb Classical Library's Plato is in twelve volumes.]]> 608 Plato 0674990404 stew 5 4.36 -400 Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.
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]]> Reasons and Persons 327051 543 Derek Parfit 019824908X stew 4 4.29 1984 Reasons and Persons
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]]> <![CDATA[The cunning of modern religious thought]]> 3483218 Book by Pacini, David S. 165 David S. Pacini 0800607864 stew 3 3.50 1987 The cunning of modern religious thought
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]]> Omensetter's Luck 156188 Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good and evil.]]> 315 William H. Gass 0141180102 stew 5 4.00 1966 Omensetter's Luck
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It's all here and there. Whether real or imagined, wished or wanted, Gass' sentences are confused epistemologies - the faked or genuine records of his characters experiences. Smoke and mirrors,but th e trace remains. Their import isn't entirely necessary, but these are some real purty peacock feathers any way you slice it.
]]> <![CDATA[Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens]]> 746784
Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the 'mereness' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cinematic eye of Terrence Malick, whose work is discussed at the end of the book.]]> 152 Simon Critchley 0415356318 stew 0 to-read 3.78 2005 Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
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]]> Anabasis 1-7 3262880 Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, married happily, and joined the staff of the Spartan king, Agesilaus. But Athens was at war with Sparta in 394 and so exiled Xenophon. The Spartans gave him an estate near Elis where he lived for years writing and hunting and educating his sons. Reconciled to Sparta, Athens restored Xenophon to honour but he preferred to retire to Corinth.

Xenophon's Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides' account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint. The Apology is an interesting complement to Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial. Xenophon's Symposium portrays a dinner party at which Socrates speaks of love; and Oeconomicus has him giving advice on household management and married life. Cyropaedia, a historical romance on the education of Cyrus (the Elder), reflects Xenophon's ideas about rulers and government; the Loeb edition is in two volumes.

We also have his Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon (on the Spartan system); Ways and Means (on the finances of Athens); Manual for a Cavalry Commander; a good manual of Horsemanship; and a lively Hunting with Hounds. The Constitution of the Athenians, though clearly not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on politics at Athens. These eight books are collected in the last of the seven volumes of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Xenophon.

]]> 651 Carleton Lewis Brownson 0434990906 stew 3 4.00 -400 Anabasis 1-7
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories]]> 152653 First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story.

]]> 240 William H. Gass 0879233745 stew 4 4.03 1968 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
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Contains the only short story I love as much as Joyce's "The Dead," which just so happens to be entitled, "Icicles." Another, "The Order of Insects" aint bad either.
]]> <![CDATA[Luke's Portrait of Paul (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 77)]]> 2990673 208 John Clayton Lentz Jr. 0521433169 stew 3 2.50 1993 Luke's Portrait of Paul (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 77)
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]]> <![CDATA[The theology of St Luke / by Hans Conzelmann ; translated by Geoffrey Buswell]]> 21899522 Hans Conzelmann stew 3 3.00 1982 The theology of St Luke / by Hans Conzelmann ; translated by Geoffrey Buswell
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]]> The Royal Family 300736 New Yorker in 1999, Vollmann received the best reviews of his career for The Royal Family, a searing fictional trip through a San Francisco underworld populated by prostitutes, drug addicts, and urban spiritual seekers. Part biblical allegory and part skewed postmodern crime novel, The Royal Family is a vivid and unforgettable work of fiction by one of today's most daring writers.]]> 780 William T. Vollmann 014100200X stew 3 3.94 2000 The Royal Family
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]]> Cathedral 11449 Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.

It was morning in America when Raymond Carver's Cathedral came out in 1983, but the characters in this dry collection of short stories from the forgotten corners of land of opportunity didn't receive much sunlight. Nothing much happens to the subjects of Carver's fiction, which is precisely why they are so harrowing: nothingness is a daunting presence to overcome. And rarely do they prevail, but the loneliness and quiet struggle the characters endure provide fertile ground for literary triumph, particularly in the hands of Carver, who was perhaps in his best form with this effort.

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was an author who rejected the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s. He pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called "dirty realists" or "K-mart realists". They are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detail. Carver writes with meticulous economy, suddenly bringing a life into focus in a similar way to the paintings of Edward Hopper. As well as being a master of the short story, he was an accomplished poet publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.]]> 230 Raymond Carver 0679723692 stew 3 4.29 1983 Cathedral
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]]> <![CDATA[The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 8: Petersburg to Savannah War is Cruelty - You Cannot Refine It]]> 2296952 326 Shelby Foote 0307290301 stew 4 4.46 The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 8: Petersburg to Savannah War is Cruelty - You Cannot Refine It
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]]> Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 243360 "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was first published to enormous critical acclaim.
This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives today stands as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.]]> 416 James Agee 0141188499 stew 5 favorites 3.99 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Thereupon the dirt dust grease and within overalls piss and shit and sweat not bothered here amongst flies and there with open mouthed kisses tastes of buttermilk there below here shoes brogans broken open at the toes the children filthy footed there the flies here the flies ten to a room struggle to sleep as ma pa making more hands to the field here upon the floorboards the flies them snorting crying groaning there louder than the floorboards dirt dust grease ma's hair red as menses her skin sunscarred black as expired oil ma and pa their laps here reek sourly as sardine cans armpits ears hair thick with grease faces hands beards with breakfast lard biscuits fatback the flies furious amongst them a single hen's egg poached in bacon grease thereupon the dirt the table dishes few utensils swatting shooing flies there the overalls piss stains shit stains dirt dust grease and ma's tit needed by mouth hungry crying try amongst a ground try cracked dry and broken open try at its feet you must thereupon and smiling.
]]> <![CDATA[The Finitude of Being (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)]]> 5123317 200 Joan Stambaugh 0791411052 stew 4 favorites 4.00 1992 The Finitude of Being (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Essence of Language: The Metaphysics of Language and the Essencing of the Word Concerning Herder's Treatise On the Origin of Language (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)]]> 641815 196 Martin Heidegger 0791462714 stew 4 favorites 4.24 2004 On the Essence of Language: The Metaphysics of Language and the Essencing of the Word Concerning Herder's Treatise On the Origin of Language (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)
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]]> <![CDATA[Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond]]> 992273 268 Gregory Nagy 0521558484 stew 5 favorites 4.36 1996 Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
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]]> Language in Literature 300700
Jakobson reveals himself as one of the great explorers of literary art in our day--a critic who revealed the avant-garde thrust of even the most worked-over poets, such as Shakespeare and Pushkin, and enabled the reader to see them as the innovators they were. Jakobson takes the reader from literature to grammar and then back again, letting points of structural detail throw a sharp light on the underlying form and linking thereby the most disparate realms into a coherent whole. In his essays we can also learn to appreciate his search for a fully systematic, nonmetaphysical understanding of the workings of literature: Jakobson made possible a deep structural analysis that did not exist before.

Among the essential items in this collection are such classics as "Linguistics and Poetics" and "On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets" and illuminations of Baudelaire, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, and Blake, as well as the famous pieces on Shakespeare and Pushkin. The essays include fundamental theoretical statements, structural analyses of individual poems, explorations of the connections between poetry and experience, and semiotic perspectives on the structure of verbal and nonverbal art. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.]]> 560 Roman Jakobson 0674510283 stew 5 favorites 4.10 1988 Language in Literature
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu]]> 313977 This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking literary style. Accepting the challenge of translating this captivating classic in its entirety, Burton Watson has expertly rendered into English both the profound thought and the literary brilliance of the text.

]]> 397 Zhuangzi 0231031475 stew 4 4.47 -350 The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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]]> The Gnostic Gospels 110763 The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time.

In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.

With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities� emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment � and access to God � within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary � or worthy � expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed � and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message.

Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.]]> 218 Elaine Pagels 0679724532 stew 1 3.94 1979 The Gnostic Gospels
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas]]> 386559 The Gnostic Gospels, reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the 21st century. This book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945.

When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Pagels' spiritual and intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical and archaeological sources and to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of Christianity. The discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, along with more than 50 other early Christian texts, some unknown since antiquity, offers clues. She compares such sources as Thomas' gospel (which claims to give Jesus' secret teaching and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canon to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection many call the New Testament. To stabilize the emerging church in times of persecution, church fathers constructed the canon, creed and hierarchy - and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources.

Drawing on new scholarship - her own and that of an international group of scholars - that has come to light since the 1979 publication of The Gnostic Gospels, she shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practising justice and love, even heal and transform us.

Provocative and moving, Beyond Belief, the most personal of her books to date, shows how the impulse to seek god overflows the narrow banks of a single tradition. She writes, "What I have come to love in the wealth and diversity of our religious traditions - and the communities that sustain them - is that they offer the testimony of innumerable people to spiritual discovery, encouraging us, in Jesus' words, to 'seek, and you shall find.'"

CONTENTS
From the feast of Agape to the Nicene Creed
Gospels in conflict: John and Thomas
God's word or human words?
The canon of truth and the triumph of John
Constantine and the Catholic Church
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index]]> 272 Elaine Pagels 0375501568 stew 1 3.91 2003 Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics]]> 22470
With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.]]> 214 Elaine Pagels 0679731180 stew 1 3.91 1995 The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
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]]> <![CDATA[Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity]]> 54884 189 Elaine Pagels 0679722327 stew 1 4.02 1988 Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
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]]> Glamorama 9913 “Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.� �The Village Voice

“Compelling and scary. A political thriller bursting with conspiracies, double agents and international terrorism. Glamorama is like a Semtex attack on our superficialities.� �The Face

The author of American Psycho continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity-obsessed culture.

Victor Ward, a twenty-something model in fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan, is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers—back on the other, familiar side—that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.]]> 546 Bret Easton Ellis 0375703845 stew 3 The Recogntions of its era.]]> 3.55 1998 Glamorama
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The Recogntions of its era.
]]> Plato: Phaedo 376960 316 Plato 052131318X stew 5 4.00 -380 Plato: Phaedo
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]]> <![CDATA[Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship]]> 1440731 Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others.

He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the political and cultural ferment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here, he connects renewed enthusiasm for myth to the nexus of Romanticism, nationalism, and Aryan triumphalism, particularly the quest for a language and set of stories on which nation-states could be founded.

In the final section of this wide-ranging book, Lincoln advocates a fresh approach to the study of myth, providing varied case studies to support his view of myth—and scholarship on myth—as ideology in narrative form.
]]> 313 Bruce Lincoln 0226482022 stew 0 to-read 4.14 2000 Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
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]]> <![CDATA[Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter With God]]> 1137641 222 Edward Schillebeeckx 0934134723 stew 5 4.12 1965 Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter With God
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]]> <![CDATA[Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly: The Modern Religion of Conscience]]> 6145803
David Pacini argues that, despite its advocacy of the popular political value of common understanding, the modern religion of conscience has become the Achilles' heel of both Kantian and Freudian thought. It is doomed to succumb to its own fundamentally narcissistic or self-relating orientation. Avoiding the tenacious cliché that the luminaries of modern philosophy simply replaced God with the self, David Pacini argues that the modern religion of conscience emerges out of a far more radical kind of disenchantment, one in which both God and self are de-divinized. Bereft of divinity, the God of modernity becomes empty; the self of modernity, in its autonomy, becomes hopelessly tied to dissociation from origins and to loss of a world.

Left only to itself, the conscientious individual has only the world it legitimates through self-relating. But given that any other world is inconceivable, the conscientious individual can never know whether its world is just or merely the expression of self-interest. Paradoxically, Pacini argues, the most formidable proponents of the modern religion of conscience share with their critics a common the self-legislating self has become both indispensable and impossible within much of modern philosophy and theology. This unique and interdisciplinary interpretation of conscience makes an important contribution for scholars and students of modern philosophy, Christian theology, psychoanalytic theory, and literary criticism.]]> 222 David S. Pacini 0823229645 stew 4 4.00 2008 Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly: The Modern Religion of Conscience
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]]> The Book of Chuang Tzu 313974
One of the founders of Taoism, Chuang Tzu was firmly opposed to Confucian values of order, control, and hierarchy, believing the perfect state to be one where primal, innate nature rules. Full of profundity as well as tricks, knaves, sages, jokers, unbelievably named people, and uptight Confucians, The Book of Chuang Tzu perceives the Tao-the Way of Nature- not as a term to be explained but as a path to walk. Radical and subversive, employing wit, humor, and shock tactics, The Book of Chuang Tzu offers an intriguing look deep into Chinese culture.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 320 Zhuangzi 014045537X stew 3 4.28 -350 The Book of Chuang Tzu
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mystical Way In Everyday Life: Sermons, Prayers, and Essays]]> 7545329 199 Karl Rahner 1570758670 stew 3 4.34 2010 The Mystical Way In Everyday Life: Sermons, Prayers, and Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[This World and the Beyond: The Marburg Sermons]]> 2797457 248 Rudolf Karl Bultmann stew 0 to-read 4.67 1956 This World and the Beyond: The Marburg Sermons
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]]> Walden and Other Writings 716873 Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. White

Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition gathers all of Thoreau's most significant works, including his masterpiece, Walden (reproduced in its entirety); A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; selections from Cape Cod and The Maine Woods; as well as "Walking," "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery in Massachusetts," "A Plea for Captain John Brown," and "Life Without Principle." Taken together, they reveal the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of this true American original.

Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide]]> 802 Henry David Thoreau 0679783342 stew 4 3.96 1854 Walden and Other Writings
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]]> For Whom the Bell Tolls 46170 For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.]]> 471 Ernest Hemingway stew 3 3.98 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls
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I obscenity your transmission. I obscenity in the milk of your ancestors. I, and always and forever I; wandering I, mucking I, obscene obscenity forever and always and milking and transmissing and mucking wandering amongst the forever and the always I; obscenity obscene, mucking milking milk ancestral forever and ever to have and to hold and to be and now and always and forever; this now, wandering now, transmissing now, mucking now, milking now, obscene obscenity now, ancestral now, forever to be and to hold and to have always.
]]> The Christian Faith 346079 780 Friedrich Schleiermacher 0567087093 stew 4 3.74 1822 The Christian Faith
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]]> <![CDATA[Christmas Eve Celebration: A Dialogue]]> 10954134 146 Friedrich Schleiermacher 1606089617 stew 3 3.90 Christmas Eve Celebration: A Dialogue
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]]> <![CDATA[On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers]]> 335888 130 Friedrich Schleiermacher 0521479754 stew 3 3.57 On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers
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]]> White Noise 11762 310 Don DeLillo 0140283307 stew 2 3.86 1985 White Noise
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Not as poor as Pat Delaney thinks, but not quite three stars either; if only I could give it a 2.3.
]]> End Zone 11764 Dr. Strangelove meets North Dallas Forty, solidified his place in the American literary landscape in the early 1970s. The story of an angst-ridden, war-obsessed running back for Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is a heady and hilarious conflation of Cold War existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefield/sports rhetoric. When not arguing nuclear endgame strategy with his professor, Major Staley, narrator Gary Harkness joins a brilliant and unlikely bunch of overmuscled gladiators on the field and in the dormitory. In characteristic fashion, DeLillo deliberately undermines the football-is-combat cliché by having one of his characters explain: "I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing." What remains is an insightful examination of language in an alien, postmodern world, where a football player's ultimate triumph is his need to play the game.]]> 200 Don DeLillo 0671820125 stew 3 3.68 1972 End Zone
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One of DeLillo's lesser knowns. There's a sequence of about three or four pages of guys playing football in the snow that is some of his best writing ever.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master]]> 300138 156 Ruzbihan Baqli 0964436213 stew 3 4.10 1997 The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master
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Required reading in a "mysticism" course I took at GSU, this created the monster paper that was "The ineluctable modaility of the modally ineluctable: Reading Ruzbihan."
]]> The Writing of the Disaster 189243
The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster’s infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain, and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation.Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative." Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated."]]> 170 Maurice Blanchot 0803261209 stew 2 4.24 1980 The Writing of the Disaster
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Seemingly impenetrable and endlessly disturbing, TWoTD is exactly the type of book one needs to pick up after two sleepless nights and too much black tea. Do you keep guns in the house?
]]> On Being Blue 156185 91 William H. Gass 0879232374 stew 4 3.90 1975 On Being Blue
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The "analysis" of the phrase, "Fuck a duck," is worth a read alone.
]]> The Maytrees 12533
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.

Dillard recounts the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.]]> 216 Annie Dillard 0061239534 stew 4 3.60 2007 The Maytrees
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Poetry cannot be too poetic, nor can love be too loving. Open yourself like a tunnel and let this book roar through you. Not "getting it" is an option for those who have forgotten what it was like to be a child, to wonder, to want, to live.
]]> Holy the Firm 7695 76 Annie Dillard 0060915439 stew 5 4.23 1977 Holy the Firm
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]]> <![CDATA[Acts of the Apostles (Hermeneia)]]> 2588885 288 Hans Conzelmann 0800660188 stew 4 3.29 1987 Acts of the Apostles (Hermeneia)
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